1790511 - Red [X] disappeared from Subject column Message List Pane in "mark as deleted" mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1779445

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[gerth]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Steps to reproduce:

This report is based on Thunderbird for MacOS

1. For an IMAP account's Server Settings under "When I delete a message", select the radio button "Just mark it as deleted"
2. In the "Message List Pane" for a folder with many messages delete a few

Actual results:

The entries for the deleted messages are grayed out and a strike-through line added

Expected results:

In versions as recent as 91 but not in the current 102.2.2, the leftmost position in the "Subject" column for any deleted message would have a Red [X} indicating deletion similar to the gold lozenge which appears in that position for an unread message.

The problem is that the lower luminance grayed text with the strike-through is far less distinguishable without the Red[X]. Since one sometimes inadvertently hits a delete key, over the years I have found the Red[X] to have saved me many times from accidentally purging a message of value during folder compaction.

I did notice that 102 now has a "Delete" column and I tried adding that. However, the icons in that column are also low luminance gray and appear too similar in overall coverage to be readily distinguishable.

I would think restoring the Red[X] for a deleted message would be straightforward since space for the lozenge for an unread message is already reserved. Another way to resolve this and restore previous affordances would be to change the icon in the deleted column to improve salience, e.g. just turn the icon red for a deleted message; or not have any icon for a message which isn't deleted; or ....